The use of photographic images and the effort to restore humanity and respectability of women

CIRCUITS OF GLOBALIZATION AND LABOR MIGRATION (Week 10)

Geographies and counter-geographies of globalization

Hyper-mobility of capital

Formation of global markets

Development of global communication

Series of processes that over-valorize certain types of output, workers, and sectors (and de-valorize others)

Alternative global circuits

Alternative circuits of migration

Instantiation of gendering in the global economy - from the perspective of disadvantaged locations

Embedded in global economic system

Constitutive of globalization

Lens through and by which to see the dynamics of gendering implicit in globalization

Impacts of globalization

Burden of Debt

Free Trade

Currency Devaluation

Fiscal Austerity Measures and drastic cuts in expenditure on social services

HIPC Initiative

Highly Indebted Poor Countries: Help poor countries get back on their feet

Debt servicing

Dollarization

Countries use foreign currency to do better

New world domestic order

Feminization of survival

Dependency of women to take care of their families

Transnational motherhood

When women migrate, become nannies, and are like a mother to the child.

Shifting meanings of motherhood

Care Chains

Series of personal inks between people across the globe based on the paid and unpaid work of caring; critical modernist (recognizes global inequalities or resources); avoids primordialist stance (mothers should care for their own and not migrate); advocates better pay and working conditions forimmigrants

Inequality between the groom and the bride (economic, gender, class, ethnicity)

Sexism and patriarchy

Anti-feminist sentiment in MOB

Belleau's two policy recommendation for countering problems of MOB

GENDER AND HEALTH: HIV AND THE BODY (Week 15)

Myths and misunderstanding about AIDS

"rugged vagina" and "vulnerable anus"

Darlene

Guylene

Lata's narratives as evidence of structural violence

Political economy of risks

The role of inequality in promoting HIV transmission

Symbolic violence

Condom usage and HIV

Blaming the victim

How poverty, racism, sexism and political violence influence HIV infection

Three problematic Western texts on AIDS in Africa: 1)"Africans won't use condoms", 2)"Africans have such poor medical care that they can't properly diagnose AIDS", :bad blood", "slim disease", 3)"AIDS is a disease of poverty"